It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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